Help!

[Ian Mack]

I have a sketch that needs to be turned into vectors...can anyone point me to a tuturial that will explain how to do this?

I found this one...
http://www.designertoday.com/tabindex-16/tabId-19/itemid-1857/DesktopDefault.aspx

but the step that involves dragging the first img into the channels part of the bg comp just doesn't work for me.


thanks!

[acid]

just have a straight black and white image.... use the lasso tool, or whatever to select the area you need to be made into a vector...

next go to your layers pallet, and over to the little area for "paths" at the bottom of the pallet (where you'd normally see the trashcan and new layer buttons) you should see a few other buttons... i'm not sure which one does what... but if you ctrl-click one of them, it should bring up a window... asking you for a number.... and just enter something like 10 (experiment) then click ok....

it should turn the selection into a path... you'll need to clean it up a bit, but it works pretty well

as you can tell, i don't do that very often... but i can when i need to

sorry if i wasn't much help

[cgfuller64]

Any tutorial that shows you a bit of illustrator would help. I have a trial version of illustrator on disk (came with a book and I didn't use it) if you want it, I'll ship it. Once you had illustrator installed I could walk ya through it in a few minutes.

[figure2]

I don't know if you can find a copy of Adobe Streamline since Adobe discontinued it. Streamline did one thing but did it very well: it was a super, more accurate version of Illustrator's auto trace tool which produced vector shapes from raster images. As I understand it, the CS2 version of Illustrator incorporates Streamline's functionality into the program.